Friday A/V Club: The Campaigns Against Cable TV
Movie theaters warn: Pay TV is a monster!
Movies
A Million Ways to Die in the West Is a One-Note Jokefest, Maleficent Is Modern Disney Magic
Seth MacFarlane is not quite ready for the big screen, but Angelina Jolie rules over a Sleeping Beauty spinoff.
Disco Doesn't Suck. Here's Why.
Once largely derided as shallow, faddish, consumerist music, disco has been reappraised as the stifled sounds of cultural liberation. Of course, it could always be both.
Friday A/V Club: Our Friendly Government Explains Why These Concentration Camps Are in Everyone's Best Interests
A propaganda film defends the internment of Japanese Americans.
X-Men: Days of Future Past Is Near-Perfect, While Cold in July Has an Old-School Flair
Hugh Jackman in a time-tripping blockbuster, Michael C. Hall and Don Johnson in a nasty little noir.
What Fed Up Gets Wrong About the Food Industry
The new documentary Fed Up claims to shine a critical light on the food industry and the "obesity epidemic." But it ignores the real culprit.
Godzilla Brings Monsters To Life
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston in a great monster mashup.
Demented Excess and More in Chef, Neighbors, and Palo Alto
Food porn, frat boys, and teenage wasteland revisited
Blood Glacier Isn't Total Crap; Zombeavers Is
Screaming death birds and undead aqua-rodents.
Friday A/V Club: When Satire, Slapstick, and Surrealism Collide
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Grapples With Love, Death, and CGI
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone return in an overwrought arachnid adventure.
The Other Woman Brings New Twists to Chick Flicks
Leslie Mann classes up a predictable movie that has a light, jaunty comic rhythm.
In Your Eyes: A DIY showcase
Joss Whedon's newest flick isn't just a great new movie. Its distribution model may be the future of great new movies.
Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I
Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.
Veronica Mars and Grand Piano
Kristen Bell back on the case, Elijah Wood playing for his life.
Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?
The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes a movie that's a labor of love over budgets.
The Grand Budapest Hotel and 300: Rise of an Empire
Ralph Fiennes between two wars, ancient Greeks back in the thick of one.
For Anyone Who Wonders What Thomas Frank Thinks of the Films of Harold Ramis…
Liberals do not "own the imagery of subversion and outsiderness."
